Month: April 2017

An unexpected trip to Burbank was planned to co-incide with lunch, so we could pick up some Popeye’s Fried Chicken.

8 pieces of dark and spicy chicken is $9.99 or $2.70 a serve with tax per serve

Half the Large Red Beans and Rice is $2.15 with tax, per serve.

Lunch today cost $4.85 per serve.

Dinner

The meatloaf meal from last night was a double batch, so we repeated the meal tonight, but fried off the meatloaf which gave it a really nice maillard reaction on the surfaces. Served with the remaining chipotle mashed sweet potato and fresh steamed bok choy.

The ground pork was $8.23 or $2.06 per serve

The grass fed ground beef was $6.48 or $1.62 per serve

A can of chipotle is $1.50 and we used half, or 38c per serve

Two sweet potatoes (yams) were $2.11 or 53c per serve

The bok choy was $1.99 for the pack, and we used half, or 50c per serve.

With little in the house, we needed a restock trip to Trader Joes, which lead to the quiche lorraine.

The quiche is $5.49 or $2.75 per serve.

Dinner

Among the remains of our Prather Ranch meat deliveries after skipping a month was a pound of ground pork. Add a pound of ground beef and it’s meatloaf time. Served with chipotle mashed sweet potato and steamed bok choy for some green.

The recipe makes four generous serves.

The ground pork was $8.23 or $2.06 per serve

The grass fed ground beef was $6.48 or $1.62 per serve

A can of chipotle is $1.50 and we used half, or 38c per serve

Two sweet potatoes (yams) were $2.11 or 53c per serve

The bok choy was $1.99 for the pack, and we used half, or 50c per serve.

The NAB schedule makes it more practical to have a big breakfast and skip lunch, which is what we did by sampling the Wynn buffet. We find it hard to get good value from a buffet as we don’t eat huge amounts of food, but what we ate was good.

Breakfast was $44.60 per serve with tax and tip.

Dinner

The evening was spent at a sponsored event. It could be considered our most expensive meal, as our two companies were two of the seven sponsors of the event at the Hard Rock Cafe!

On the road to Las Vegas and the NAB show, we stopped at Zzyzx and had a wild caught smoked salmon, with labné, tomato, capers and thinly sliced red onion on a toasted onion bagel.

Smoked salmon $5.99 for the 4oz pack or $3.00 a serve

The pack of six onion bagels is $1.99 or 33c per serve

Labne is about 40c a serve

We used one kumato per serve or 58c

Add 15c for capers and shallot.

Lunch today cost $4.46 a serve.

Dinner

Before heading for our traditional Sunday night steakhouse dinner with a friend, we were fortunate to experience the food of two MasterChef Junior contestants: Robbie Coblentz and Adam Wadhwani. Naturally the finger food was delicious.

We then dined at New York, New York’s Gallagher Steakhouse where our friend treated us to an amazing meal.